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Ceuta’s border crisis is about geopolitics, not just migration
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People breach barbed wires as they attempt to cross from the Moroccan northern town of Fnideq to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on July 31, 2026. (AP Photo)
Ceuta’s border crisis is about geopolitics, not just migration
Published: August 17, 2026 10.14am EDT
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According to a European Parliament resolution adopted in June 2021, Moroccan police temporarily eased controls at the border of Ceuta, the Spanish enclave of about 83,000 people on the North African coast, and failed to stop thousands of people from entering.
The resolution described how roughly 9,000 people …
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